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Howard Hughes

His Life And Madness

By: Donald L Barlett,James B Steele

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Howard Hughes

His Life And Madness

By: Donald L Barlett,James B Steele

Aviator, Playboy, Film Producer, Entrepreneur, and Recluse, Howard Hughes lived a life that was the stuff of headlines. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele's biography is an extraordinary and brilliantly researched work on Hughes's multiple careers; his romances with Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, and Rita Hayworth; and his turn away from the world into addictions and secrecy. Book jacket.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393326020

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9780393326024

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

By: James A. Jobling

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Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

By: James A. Jobling

A comprehensive dictionary of the meaning and derivation of scientific bird names. Many scientific bird names describe a bird's habits, habitat, distribution or a plumage feature, while others are named after their discoverers or in honour of prominent ornithologists. This extraordinary work of reference lists the generic and specific name for almost every species of bird in the world and gives its meaning and derivation. In the case of eponyms brief biographical details are provided for each of the personalities commemorated in the scientific names. This fascinating book is an outstanding source of information which will both educate and inform, and may even help to understand birds better.

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433

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408133261

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9781408133262

The American Journal of Science

Vol. XXXIV

By: James D. Dana,Edward S. Dana

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The American Journal of Science

Vol. XXXIV

By: James D. Dana,Edward S. Dana

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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534

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368628976

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9783368628970

The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas

By: Laura Spess Jackson,Carol A. Thompson,James J. Dinsmore

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The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas

By: Laura Spess Jackson,Carol A. Thompson,James J. Dinsmore

The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas"—the first comprehensive statewide survey of Iowa's breeding birds—provides a detailed record of the composition and distribution of the avifauna of the Hawkeye State. The atlas documents the presence of 199 species, 158 of which were confirmed breeding. This landmark volume will alert Iowans to the limited distribution of numerous species and serve as a guide to the management practices—such as forest and wetland management, set-aside programs, reduction in farm chemical use, and crop diversity—which could help insure that many future changes are positive ones. "The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas" provides a welcome and much-needed baseline for future comparisons of changes in Iowa's birdlife and, by extension, the lives of all animals in the state.

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512

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University of Iowa Press

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1587291169

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9781587291166

Principles of Forensic Pathology

From Investigation to Certification

By: Susan F. Ely,James R. Gill

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Principles of Forensic Pathology

From Investigation to Certification

By: Susan F. Ely,James R. Gill

Principles of Forensic Pathology: From Investigation to Certification offers a conceptual framework and foundational approach to a forensic practice grounded by evidence-based and mechanistic thinking. This book uses a systematic approach to address, explain, and guide the reader through diverse topics relevant to forensic pathologists and medicolegal death investigators. Nineteen chapters provide a comprehensive overview of the field of forensic pathology and discusses central topics such as scene investigation, the pathophysiology of death, death certification, the forensic autopsy, forensic imaging, pediatric forensic pathology, the importance of context, and approaches to frequently encountered medicolegal death circumstances, with mental checklists and suggestions for a consistent and considered approach. Written by forensic professionals, this book is a practical, yet comprehensive compendium for practicing forensic pathologists, coroners, medicolegal death investigators, forensic pathology fellows, pathology residents, medical students interested in forensic pathology, lawyers, and law enforcement professionals. - Presents a primary text that is ideal for daily forensic practice - Discusses how to properly investigate and certify death in a consistent and defensible way - Emphasizes best practices in the field, providing an approach that is in line with today's forensic pathologist

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616

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Elsevier

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0323986390

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9780323986397

The Fog of War

Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

By: James G. Blight,janet M. Lang

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The Fog of War

Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

By: James G. Blight,janet M. Lang

Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book, editors James G. Blight and janet M. Lang use lessons from McNamara's life to examine issues of war and peace in the 20th century. McNamara's career spans some of America's defining events—from the end of World War I, through the course of World War II, and the unfolding of the Cold War in Cuba, Vietnam, and around the world. The Fog of War brings together film transcripts, documents, dialogues, and essays to explore what the horrors and triumphs of the 20th century can teach us about the future.

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325

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742580229

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9780742580220

Negative Quantum Channels

By: James M. McCracken

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Negative Quantum Channels

By: James M. McCracken

This book is a brief introduction to negative quantum channels, i.e., linear, trace-preserving (and consistent) quantum maps that are not completely positive. The flat and sharp operators are introduced and explained. Complete positivity is presented as a mathematical property, but it is argued that complete positivity is not a physical requirement of all quantum operations. Negativity, a measure of the lack of complete positivity, is proposed as a tool for empirically testing complete positivity assumptions. Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Introduction and Definition of Terms / Tomography / Non-Positive Reduced Dynamics / Complete Positivity / Physical Motivation of Complete Positivity / Measures of Complete Positivity / Negative Channels / Negative Climates with Diagonal Composite Dynamics / Rabi Channels / Physical Motivations for Sharp Operations / Negative Qubit Channel Examples with Multi-Qubit Baths / Proposed Experimental Demonstration of Negativity / Implications of Negative Channels / Uses for Negative Channels / Conclusions / Bibliography / Author's Biography

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171

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Springer Nature

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3031025172

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9783031025174

Patterns for Jazz: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation

For Bass Clef Instruments

By: Jerry Coker,James Casale,Gary Campbell,Jerry Greene

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Patterns for Jazz: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation

For Bass Clef Instruments

By: Jerry Coker,James Casale,Gary Campbell,Jerry Greene

Patterns for Jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational materials. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scales -- from simple (major) to complex (lydian augmented scales).

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183

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Alfred Music

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1457494078

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9781457494079

The Zong

A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

By: James Walvin

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The Zong

A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

By: James Walvin

“A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781.”—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of Slavery On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous Zong today. Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the Zong’s voyage and the subsequent trial—a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners’ claim that their “cargo” had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted wide debate and fueled Britain’s awakening abolition movement. Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the process of ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and political trajectory. He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the case of the Zong, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships. “Engaging . . . [Walvin’s] expertise shines through with surgical use of statistics and absorbing deviations into subjects such as Turner’s masterpiece The Slave Ship and the slave-fueled growth of Liverpool.”—Daily Mail

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260

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Yale University Press

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0300180756

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9780300180756

Birds of the Carolinas

By: Eloise F. Potter,James F. Parnell,Robert P. Teulings,Ricky Davis

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Birds of the Carolinas

By: Eloise F. Potter,James F. Parnell,Robert P. Teulings,Ricky Davis

The well-loved standard reference for bird-watchers and nature lovers in North Carolina and South Carolina, Birds of the Carolinas collects information on all avian species known to have occurred in the region since 1900. This thoroughly revised second edition describes more than 460 individual species, including more than 60 new species that have been recorded since the publication of the first edition in 1980. Updated entries for all species reflect the current status of bird life as well as major changes in taxonomy and nomenclature. Each species account indicates when and where the bird is most likely to be found in the Carolinas, its nesting habits, feeding habits, and descriptive information useful in identifying the species. Generously illustrated with 350 color photographs, this comprehensive guide to regional birds and their behavior will quickly earn a prominent place on the bookshelf of every bird-watcher in the Carolinas.

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414

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UNC Press Books

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9798890879721

Mono: A Developer's Notebook

By: Edd Wilder-James,Niel M. Bornstein

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Mono: A Developer's Notebook

By: Edd Wilder-James,Niel M. Bornstein

The Mono Project is the much talked-about open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's .NET Development Framework. Its purpose is to allow Unix developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET applications. The project has also sparked interest in developing components, libraries and frameworks with C#, the programming language of .NET.The controversy? Some say Mono will become the preferred platform for Linux development, empowering Linux/Unix developers. Others say it will allow Microsoft to embrace, extend, and extinguish Linux. The controversy rages on, but--like many developers--maybe you've had enough talk and want to see what Mono is really all about.There's one way to find out: roll up your sleeves, get to work, and see what you Mono can do. How do you start? You can research Mono at length. You can play around with it, hoping to figure things out for yourself. Or, you can get straight to work with Mono: A Developer's Notebook--a hands-on guide and your trusty lab partner as you explore Mono 1.0.Light on theory and long on practical application, Mono: A Developer's Notebook bypasses the talk and theory, and jumps right into Mono 1.0. Diving quickly into a rapid tour of Mono, you'll work through nearly fifty mini-projects that will introduce you to the most important and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release. Using the task-oriented format of this new series, you'll learn how to acquire, install, and run Mono on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. You'll work with the various Mono components: Gtk#, the Common Language Runtime, the class libraries (both .NET and Mono-provided class libraries), IKVM and the Mono C# compiler. No other resource will take you so deeply into Mono so quickly or show you as effectively what Mono is capable of.The new Developer's Notebooks series from O'Reilly covers important new tools for software developers. Emphasizing example over explanation and practice over theory, they focus on learning by doing--you'll get the goods straight from the masters, in an informal and code-intensive style that suits developers. If you've been curious about Mono, but haven't known where to start, this no-fluff, lab-style guide is the solution.

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308

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1449343694

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9781449343699

The Black Loyalists

The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870

By: James W. St. G. Walker

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The Black Loyalists

The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870

By: James W. St. G. Walker

There is a Canadian myth about the Loyalists who left the United States after the American Revolution for Canada. The myth says they were white, upper-class citizens devoted to British ideals, transplanting the best of colonial American society to British North America. In reality, more than 10 per cent of the Loyalists who came to the Maritime provinces were black and had been slaves. The Black Loyalists tells the story of one such group who came to Nova Scotia, but didn't stay. James Walker documents their experience in Canada, following them across the Atlantic as they became part of a unique colonial experiment in Sierra Leone.

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422

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University of Toronto Press

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1487516967

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9781487516963

Introduction to Clinical Neurology

By: Douglas James Gelb

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Introduction to Clinical Neurology

By: Douglas James Gelb

Provides clear, sensible discussions of common neurologic conditions, detailing the initial examination, interpretation of results, diagnosis, treatment options, and more. The author's systematic approach to patient management, and his reader-friendly style, makes complex information easy to understand and apply. Emphasizing the information necessary for success on clinical rotations and clerkships in neurology, the book approaches neurology the way it is taught by clinical instructors, and offers step-by-step guidance on performing the initial neurologic examination. Includes problem-solving aids for the interpretation of difficult examination results.

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464

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0750675063

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9780750675062

Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

By: James William Ward

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Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

By: James William Ward

A compilation from Hahnemann's Materia Medica, Allen's Encyclopaedia and Clarke's Dictionary. Divided into 2 sections, pathogenic symptoms and clinical symptoms. Vol. 1 provings; Vol. 2 clinical verifications.

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B. Jain Publishers

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817021047X

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9788170210474

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Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names

The American Journal of Science

The American Journal of Science

The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas

The Iowa Breeding Bird Atlas

Principles of Forensic Pathology

Principles of Forensic Pathology

The Fog of War

The Fog of War

Negative Quantum Channels

Negative Quantum Channels

Patterns for Jazz: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation

Patterns for Jazz: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation

The Zong

The Zong

Birds of the Carolinas

Birds of the Carolinas

Mono: A Developer's Notebook

Mono: A Developer's Notebook

The Black Loyalists

The Black Loyalists

Introduction to Clinical Neurology

Introduction to Clinical Neurology

Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

Unabridged Dictionary of Sensations as If

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